Australian Michael Quinn Pleads Guilty To U.S. Child Sex Charges

He was caught in a police sting posing as a child sex party.

A Melbourne man who arrived at a Los Angeles hotel room for what he thought was a child sex party will spend at least a decade behind bars.

Melbourne Chargers rugby player and IVF geneticist Michael Quinn pleaded guilty to child sex offences after a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer posed as a group of paedophiles offering the chance to have sex with a six-year old boy.

Court documents showed Quinn told the undercover officer he was "looking for sex with children... his favourite were boys, aged 5-10".

When in the U.S. the undercover officer invited Quinn to a hotel room under the impression a boy would arrive with a pimp.

Three other men were also waiting who were undercover police officers as well. A 'pimp' arrived and as soon as Quinn paid him US$260, he was arrested.